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	Knowledge King - Gelett Burgess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 - September 18, 1951) was an artist, art critic, poet, author, and humorist.
		It is reported that he lost his job as a drafting instructor at the University of California, Berkeley because of unmentionable alterations of statues of Henry Cogswell, a famous Bay Area dentist who had donated several statues of himself to the city of San Francisco, California.
		An influential article by Burgess The Wild Men of Paris, (Architectural Record, May 1910), was the first introduction of cubist art in the United States.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/g/ge/gelett_burgess.html (170 words)

	Recess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gelett Burgess, was an American editor, writer, and humorist, born in Boston on January 30, 1866.
		For Burgess, a child's spontaneous drawing was the "perfect expression of a thought," and it became therefore an ideal expression of art.
		Burgess eventually came to resent his being known primarily as the author of "The Purple Cow." Apparently people would walk up to him, recite the verse and then burst into hysterical laughter.
	www.recess.ufl.edu /transcripts/2003/0130.shtml (423 words)

	Voip (voip) n.(View) Mark Morton
		The word was invented in 1914 by Gelett Burgess, a humorist devoted to creating names for previously unnamed things.
		Burgess may have developed these words from real sources: Voip suggests void, as in "void of pleasure"; fidgeltick suggests fidgeting, a repetitive action accomplishing nothing.
		As dandy as Burgess' words are, however, none of them has achieved currency with the exception of blurb, a quoted passage of fulsome praise found on book jackets.
	www.utne.com /pub/1999_94/view/386-1.html (165 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Gelett Burgess
		The word "blurb", by the way, was invented by Burgess in 1907, when he attributed the effusively complimentary jacket copy of one of his books to a Miss Belinda Blurb.
		Frank Gelett Burgess was born Jan. 30, 1866, in Boston, MA.
		Tho the landscape's rearrangement was alleged (by Burgess) to have been cheered by students, the school's administration took a dimmer view, and he abruptly found himself unemployed.
	www.toonopedia.com /burgess.htm (696 words)

	[minstrels] The Purple Cow -- Gelett Burgess
		Burgess, incidentally, grew increasingly annoyed by the fact that he was known mainly for 'The Purple Cow', and eventually wrote the following followup: CONFESSION: and a Portrait, Too, Upon a Background that I Rue!
		Burgess' humour was based upon the sudden break of ideas: a substitution of the unexpected for the commonplace.
		Said to have been originated in 1907 by Gelett Burgess in a comic book jacket embellished with a drawing of a pulchritudinous young lady whom he facetiously dubbed Miss Blinda Blurb.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/120.html (658 words)

	Detective Offshoots of the Rogue School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gelett Burgess is an American author, whose occasional output of crime fiction, parallels in era the American Scientific School of Reeve, Rinehart, and Moffett.
		Burgess' protagonists tend to be crooks themselves, and in the crimes they solve they meet ordinary, if well to do, people, who are not professional criminals, but who are shaving more than a few corners and indulging in some very crooked schemes themselves.
		Burgess' realism about the often crooked behavior of the upper classes, and his use of the public sphere as a setting for his tales, are definitely related to mystery approach used by the American School, as well.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/rogue.htm (15023 words)

	Weird Words: Blurb
		The American illustrator and humorist Gelett Burgess had written How to be a Bromide in 1906, introducing bromidioms, hackneyed phrases (such as “I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like”) uttered by boring and predictable people whom he named bromides, after the then familiar sedative, potassium bromide.
		Gelett Burgess invented more new words than anybody else at that period, which he incorporated into several books.
		An oofle is a person whose name you can’t remember; a voip is a type of food that lacks all gastronomic delight; a floogijab sounds like a compliment but has a sting in the tail; a tintiddle is an esprit de l’escalier, a witty comment you think of too late.
	www.worldwidewords.org /weirdwords/ww-blu1.htm (342 words)

	Russian Hill Neighbors
		Polk was a participant in the varied intellectual and artistic groups that frequently met on the Summit – the Worcester Group, Kate Adkinson and Gelett Burgess’s Les Jeunes and finally groups that he organized.
		These included Kate Adkinson, now owner of this property, her relatives, Gelett Burgess, the Parkers (descendents of the Homers), Mary Curtis Richardson, Bruce Porter and others.
		Although she was honored as poet laureate of California in 1915, her main contribution to the literary world of San Francisco was as a catalyst to the aspiring writers - Joaquim Miller, George Sterling, Bret Harte, Gelett Burgess and others - who met regularly at her home for readings.
	www.rhn.org /historysummitIresidents.html (1997 words)

	Gelett Burgess
		Former draftsman, he became a magazine editor and then cartoonist/author when he began publishing in book form his works of humor in 1907.
		Burgess was fired from the faculty of UC Berkeley in 1894 after his involvement with the toppling of a horrifically ugly statue.
		He coined the term "blurb" in 1907, when he claimed "Miss Belinda Blurb" as the author of a blurb that he obviously wrote himself.
	www.nndb.com /people/608/000048464 (125 words)

	AllRefer.com - Gelett Burgess (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Gelett Burgess (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Gelett Burgess (Frank Gelett Burgess)[julet´] Pronunciation Key, 1866–1951, American humorist, b.
		His ability as an illustrator led him into magazine work, and he was soon writing humorous articles and stories to accompany his illustrations.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BurgessG.html (188 words)

	Frank Gelett Burgess -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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		Collected from a fossil bed in the Burgess Pass of the Canadian Rockies, the Burgess Shale is one of the best preserved and most important fossil formations in the world.
		The British novelist, critic, and man of letters Anthony Burgess worked in a number of disciplines—fiction, music, journalism, and criticism among them—and was considered one of his generation's most original writers.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9318269 (646 words)

	Burgess, Gelette; Doxey, William [Editor], PURPLE COW [as appearing in:] THE LARK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Burgess, Gelette; Doxey, William [Editor], PURPLE COW [as appearing in:] THE LARK
		Burgess, Gelette; Doxey, William [Editor] PURPLE COW [as appearing in:] THE LARK San Francisco William Doxey 1895
		The Lark was published from 1895 to 1897 by Les Jeunes, "a San Francisco group of literary aesthetes led by Gelett Burgess, who contributed drawings of 'Goops' and nonsense verses, including his 'Purple Cow,' first pastured there.
	www.polybiblio.com /bud/16229.html (281 words)

	Architectural Series: Russian Hill \| by Christopher VerPlanck \| July 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The group, which consisted at various times of Willis Polk, Gelett Burgess, Bruce Porter, Florence Lundborg and Porter Garnett, worked together to produce a literary journal called The Lark.
		Gelett Burgess, the primary contributor to The Lark, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1866.
		Burgess worked as a topographer and surveyor for the Southern Pacific Railroad in California before moving to San Francisco in 1888.
	www.sfaa.org /magazine/archives/03/jul/0703.verplanck.html (4795 words)

	More info about the poet: Gelett Burgess - references bibliography
		Gelett Burgess (1866 - 1951) US humorist and illustrator [more author details]...
		GELETT BURGESS art quotations from The Resource of Art Quotations...
		Frank Gelett Burgess Quotes, Searchable and browsable database of quotations with author and subject indexes.
	www.poemhunter.com /gelett-burgess/resources/poet-3038/page-1 (592 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - The Ballad of the Hyde St Grip
		Gelett Burgess’ "The Ballad of the Hyde Street Grip"
		Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) published "The Ballad of the Hyde Street Grip" in 1901 in his book A Gage of Youth.
		Burgess' most famous poem was "The Purple Cow" (Source: The Barbary MUSH Photo Archive).
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/cchsg.html (1194 words)

	Gelett Burgess -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		in full Frank Gelett Burgess American humorist and illustrator, best known for a single, early, whimsical quatrain:
		Burgess was educated as an engineer and worked briefly for a railroad in that capacity.
		"Burgess, Gelett." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9001852?tocId=9001852 (65 words)

	Frank Gelett Burgess -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		American humorist, author, and illustrator Frank Gelett Burgess wrote and illustrated a number of popular books.
		Burgess was born on Jan. 30, 1866, in Boston, Mass.
		"Burgess, Frank Gelett." Britannica Student Encyclopedia from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9318269?tocId=9318269 (72 words)

	Gelett Burgess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is reported that he lost his job as a drafting instructor at the University of California, Berkeley because of unmentionable alterations of statues of Henry Cogswell, a famous Bay Area dentist who haddonated several statues of himself to the city of San Francisco, California.
		It should be a restless,uncertain, frightful collection of details giving the effect of a nightmare about to explode."
		An influential article by Burgess The Wild Men of Paris, (ArchitecturalRecord, May 1910), was the first introduction of cubist art in the United States.
	www.therfcc.org /gelett-burgess-211421.html (231 words)

	The Countess Charming (1917) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This movie was written by Gelett Burgess and Carolyn Wells, two extremely popular humour authors of the time.
		Wells wrote tongue-twisting limericks, such as the one about the tutor who tooted a flute.
		Burgess invented the word 'blurb' and wrote the famous poem that begins 'I never saw a purple cow'.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0007824 (773 words)

	BOOKFORUM \| feb/mar 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It originated with Gelett Burgess (18661951), who gave the name Miss Blinda Blurb to the voluptuous blonde he drew in 1906 to illustrate his comic booklet Are You a Bromide?
		Eight years later, in Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed (1914), he defined the word: "Blurb, 1.
		Fulsome praise; a sound like a publisher." Burgess, it should be noted, also gave us goop (1900), which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as "a stupid or fatuous person." Etymology is not without its own illuminations.
	www.bookforum.com /tosches.html (1080 words)

	Have you seen Gelett Burgess' follow-up to The Purple Cow? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Have you seen Gelett Burgess' follow-up to The Purple Cow?
		Is the "g" in Burgess soft or hard?
		I'm not sure, but assume it's the soft g sound.
	www.welltrainedmind.com /k8curr32/messages/1923.html (143 words)

	Quote Details: Gelett Burgess: The use of force... - The Quotations Page
		Quote Details: Gelett Burgess: The use of force...
		The use of force alone is but temporary.
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	www.quotationspage.com /quote/29385.html (92 words)

	BURGESS, GELETT - MODERN RESEARCH SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON BARD OF AVON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BURGESS, GELETT - MODERN RESEARCH SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON BARD OF AVON
		Broadside, reproducing letter by Burgess printed in the Herald Tribune of June 8, 1947.
		The sheet has a couple of tiny tears, else it is fine.
	www.rarebook.com /bostbookjp/27243070.htm (211 words)

	Poet: Gelett Burgess - All poems of Gelett Burgess
		Poet: Gelett Burgess - All poems of Gelett Burgess
		Web pages / more info about Gelett Burgess
		Born in Boston on January 30, 1866, Frank Gelett Burgess graduated from MIT in 1887 with a B.Sc.
	www.poemhunter.com /gelett-burgess/poet-3038 (236 words)

	Quotations & Quotes: Daily Quotation Server - Literature, Poetry, Science & Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I never saw a Purple Cow I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.
		Frank Gelett Burgess The Purple Cow for this author:
		Frank Gelett Burgess Cinq Ans Apres for this author:
	dqs.worldatwar.org /cgi-bin/dqs?searchquotes=1&bool=or&text=1&textbool=or&textword=purple&textwhole=1 (89 words)

	John Kilpatrick's Music Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Overture users: it's best to follow words and music through the OVE scores, but best to print from the PDFs.
		Click for facsimile of the original poem from The Burgess Nonsense Book.
		For more Gelett Burgess, see: "The Purple Cow and Other Stories", Dover Publications - possibly out of print.
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	Poet: Gelett Burgess - All poems of Gelett Burgess
		Free Poetry E-Book: 14 poems of Gelett Burgess
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	The Project Gutenberg eBook of More Goops and How Not to Be Them, by Gelett Burgess.
		The Project Gutenberg eBook of More Goops and How Not to Be Them, by Gelett Burgess.
		Project Gutenberg's More Goops and How Not to Be Them, by Gelett Burgess This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
		THE BURGESS NONSENSE BOOK; Being a complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess, Esq.
	www.gutenberg.net /1/3/0/0/13004/13004-h/13004-h.htm (3017 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Goop Directory, by Gelett Burgess.
		The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Goop Directory, by Gelett Burgess This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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